Maine Governor Janet Mills is named in newly released U.S. Department of Justice documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, with an anonymous tipster accusing her of involvement in covering up child sexual abuse and cocaine trafficking.
The allegations surfaced in a tip submitted to the Southern District of New York following the 2020 arrest of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. According to the document, the tipster—identified through contextual clues as anti-trafficking activist and professor Lori Handrahan—claimed Mills was “instrumental” in crimes related to child protection failures and was “credibly named” in cocaine trafficking.
Handrahan’s email to federal prosecutors also named former U.S. Senator and Secretary of Defense William Cohen and former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell as alleged child sex abusers, though provided no substantiating evidence for those claims. Mitchell’s documented ties to Epstein have been reported previously; Cohen’s have not.
The files reference a 1991 news article in which Mills, then a district attorney, sought a restraining order against police officers she claimed were spreading rumors about a federal drug investigation into her alleged cocaine use. A 1995 DOJ review later concluded the investigation into Mills was properly conducted but resulted in no charges.
Governor Mills has consistently denied any involvement with drug use or trafficking and has dismissed past allegations as politically motivated. Her office did not respond to the latest claims in the Epstein documents.
The allegations remain unverified and appear alongside broad, conspiratorial claims in the released files. No independent evidence has emerged to corroborate the tipster’s accusations.
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